Back to School

I was sorting through my albums yesterday and came across this LO that I did in September of Jack on his first day at his new school. I then remembered that I hadn't shared this on here.
I've used Fancy Pants Back to school range on this page.

I'm having a bit of a de-clutter day today so no scrapping but plenty of mess !

Pas de Deux !

As anyone that reads my blog on a regular basis will know, we have a little dancer in our family !
Here she is again, this time with her partner Miles after winning the gold medal at Luton Festival of Dance earlier this year, in the classical duets for the 9 and under age group. Pretty good I think considering they were only just 7 at the time and competing against girls that were already nine!
I kept this page pretty simple with just a couple of pieces of the My Mind's Eye Lost and Found 2 papers, some swirly bling and a couple of flowers layered up to give the page a bit of dimension.I also machine stitched a border round the edge just to finish it off.

I need to cut myself in half this afternoon and visit two Christmas Fairs at two different schools ! Well if you go to one you have to go to the other otherwise the kiddies get upset :)
I've also noticed that they've posted the final sketch in the three sketch challenge over at My Creative Sketches so I'll have to delve into my " photos to scrap" box and get my thinking cap on. Not until tomorrow though as I'm off the see Sian in the musical " The Wedding Singer" this evening.
Hope you all have a good week-end :)

Kaisercraft goodies!

I had a little spend at the crop on Saturday - little being the operative word!!! I bought these beautiful Chanteuse Collection by Kaisercrafts and couldn't wait to get cutting into them.
The first one is of Emily taken in the summer. The Frame paper on this is just so beautiful and I matted it onto some distressed Basic Grey pp to give it a bit of stability. It didn't look quite right with just plain bazzil behind it whichever colour I looked at. There was lots of cutting out in this page !

I also bought some lovely acrylic stamps too !
The wrought iron gate is a Prima one though but the cut out birdcage on the left side is a Kaiser one.The resin bird bath is also a Prima - love these little embelishments !
Here's a closer look at the stamps.

The second LO is of Molly, again taken in the summer on the same photo shoot !
I didn't want to embelish this page too much as I didn't want to distract from the beauty of the backing paper. So I only added a few cut out flowers and some Kaiser wooden flourishes that I inked to darken them a little, together with a couple of layers of journalling cards. I also stamped up the top of the left corner with a Kaiser stamp that was included in the kit at the crop on Saturday and added a small border to edge this corner up.

All the Kaiser products I've used can be had at www.merlyimpressions.co.uk

I went to a crop !!!!!

Believe it or not, for all the time I've been scrapping, I've never been to a crop !I've been to two retreats but never a crop. To be honest with you I couldn't quite get the attraction of having to pack virtually everything but the kitchen sink ( incase you needed it!)drive to where ever, and do what you could easily have done, in the comfort of your own homes, with all your supplies at your fingertips.
Anyhow a couple of weeks ago I was persuaded to go to the Merly Impressions crop day which was being held a couple of miles up the road from me.
I packed my tote with all that I could think I needed - took me a while as I kept remembering things that I hadn't put in !!!
Off I went with some new found courage - I'm not the best at walking into a room full of people on my own !
To cut a long story short I had a fantastic day and I can't understand why it's taken me so long to go to one.
The hall was spacious ( but I knew that, as I know the hall ) the shop was to die for - Merly Impressions,which made a bit of a dent in my bank balance ! the company was great, there was a fab kit and instructions for making two layouts that Chrissy had designed.The kit was made up of this collection with enough in the kit to make both layouts and tea, coffee and some yummy cakes were on tap.
I did make a couple of changes to this one by adding a few more flowers - well I'd already cut them all out so I wasn't going to waste them! I also added a corner stamp on the matting behind the photo as I couldn't wait to try out my new stamps( note I did say stamps, this one is only one of them ! ) that I had bought there !

I had a really lovely day, only got one layout done (note to self " must stop chatting ")but I did make up the other yesterday.
Can't wait now until January for the next one.

At last!!!

At last I've a few minutes to upload my scraplift LO that I was waiting for the Prima for.
I so enjoyed doing this page andI've lifted it as it was as it was just perfect. Many thanks to Rachael for letting me lift her beautiful work. I hope I've done it justice :)

Here's the original one made by Rachael.

and this is mine

Do pop over to Rachael's blog and have a look at her inspirational work.
www.elliottmess.blogspot.com

In the meantime !!!!!!!

Well I'm still waiting for my re-directed package of my Prima embelishments !!!
How long does the Post Office need to deliver a package 40 miles with a 1st class stamp which was posted on Thursday? There's no wonder that business and retailers are deserting them !!!!!

THEY'RE HERE !!!!!!!! As I was typing this the door bell rang - I'm such a happy bunny.
You'll have to wait a little bit longer for the posting though as I need to go into town in a few minutes but in the meantime I made this LO last night while I was waiting to finish the other with the missing bits !!!
Again using the Glitz beautiful dreamer range of papers & whot not's.

A closer look at the layering

I'll be back later to post the other LO,thanks for dropping by.

Some more Halloween !

Another two LO's from this years halloween photos.Sian went to Florida at half terms and she bought me back some bits that she picked up in the dollar and under bin at Michaels. One of the items was a pack of 5 sheets of halloween paper by Studio G for 97cents !!!!! Studio G is better known to us for the little stamps you can buy for 99p over here. OK it might not be to the quality of the more well know manufactures but it's not too bad. I used one of the papers for the background on this LO of Charlie in his "vampire" costume which he quickly corrected me when I said he looked lovely in his "Dracula" outfit !!!! Nanny is obviously un-educated to a 4 year old !!!

This one of Jack I used some of the Echo Park Apothecary Emporium collection.

I'm off now to finish a scrapbook lift of a beautiful page by Rachael Elliott. I was waiting for a couple of items to finish it off, one of those items have just been delivered so I need to get cutting! Hopefully, the second item I need will arrive with the letter post which doesn't come until around 2pm.
So do pop back tomorrow and hopefully I will have done it justice !

Halloween !

My lovely Halloween stash arrived yesterday morning. Some Echo Park papers, some Little Yellow Bicycle bits to add to the few embelishments that Sian brought back from Florida last week.
The first is Molly all dressed up as a black cat - I must have a word with Carys for future costumes - pink really doesn't fit in with normal halloween coloured stash but by using a purple background cardstock I think I've got away with it !!!

This one is of them all plus a couple of friends tucking into their food. Emily had come straight from a dance class so she isn't dressed up.

So that's another two done, just a few more to go so there might be a few more over the next couple of days.
Thanks for poping by and I do appreciate all your comments.

Pumpkin Cute

The boys were dressing up for their Halloween mini party of Saturday night when they invited a friend each for tea and a few games.So Sophie had to have a dress-up outfit too said her Mummy !! She wasn't very keen to look at the others though with all their spooky make up on and it took her quite a while to move from Daddy's knee, but she looked so cute in this little pumpkin dress.
I found these papers amongst the pile that I've had for so long that I can't even remember where I bought them ! I must go shoppiong for some more Halloween paper to do the boys from this year as well as quite a few photos from previous years that are waiting !!
As always click on the photo for a larger view and thanks for popping by.

Echo Park Victoria Garden

I had a lovely box of stash delivered the other day, the Echo Park Victoria Garden and some Glitz Beautiful Dreamer. The Glitz is for another day but yesterday I had a lovely day using the Victoria Garden.
The first LO is a photo of my grandson Jack with his little sister Sophie. They've both just had their bedtime bath so are sqeeky clean !!!
Jack is so protective of Sophie and she absolutely adores him.I'm not sure if she'll appreciate his care and concerns when she gets much older though. Having a brother that's seven years older than you and very protective won't be so appreciated when she becomes a teenager I don't think !!!

The second one I made is another picture of the girls at their wee-end at Harrogate. I had to scrap a similar picture as the previous one as they've both got their own albums.

Do click on the photos for a better view.
That's it for today so thanks for popping in.